Example sentences of "they [be] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The players gave En Shao his required speed , demonstrating what fine form they are in despite the financial problems which have clouded the organisation of late . |
| 2 | But for no more than half-a-dozen months — and then they are back on the high seas again , pursuing their trade . |
| 3 | DON T BE MISLED , whether Socialists run in their true colours , or in an underhand way as ‘ Labour ’ or ‘ Cooperative ’ , they are out for the same end , and your only remedy is to VOTE THEM DOWN . |
| 4 | A brief halt at the Military Police Post to book out with the Belgian Military Policeman on duty , and they are off along the main road into Corlu . |
| 5 | Erm the U V A machine , the problem we 've got on there which Ray 's explained or Peter raised this morning , there is in between the the drive belts that take the film down the former and which They 've put a new set on which is a hundred and forty pound a pi They 're in between the two drive wheels , there is a plastic adjuster . |
| 6 | And then they 're off to the next one . |
| 7 | Erm investment banking and fine china in the market circumstances er performed well , erm although they 're down on the previous year . |
| 8 | They 're out on the twenty of March or something . |
| 9 | We 've got a number of good pension funds that ordinary working people can join , but the issue that has come about since compulsory competitive tendering privatization is those members that 've been in pension funds for maybe twenty , twenty five years now they 're out on the open job market with the wonderful privatized world that we live in , with a free market , and they ca n't afford to make adequate pension provision for themselves . |
| 10 | But along with Oxford United they 're out of the new Anglo-Italian Cup Competition … |
| 11 | Now they 're back to the good weather again . |
| 12 | Most of these liabilities er inevitably are n't necessarily for pensions payments they 're back to the active members , some of whom wo n't make any actual claim on this possibly for thirty years time , so there could well be a er a a scheme which is arrived at which is a pay as you go , which is n't any great liability o on , on any one pension scheme at any particular moment in time . |
| 13 | They 're back in the new Mazda MX5 . |
| 14 | ‘ It was funny to see those agents ’ faces when they discovered they were up against the famous Marc Vila ! |
| 15 | They were up against the absolute certainty of guilt expressed by all the parties weighed against them . |
| 16 | They were out on the anonymous A40 ; George pulled into a lay-by and gingerly fingered through the wallet with renewed twinges of horror . |
| 17 | The Firth was much broader here than at Dalmeny and , if it had not been a clear day , Corbett could have almost believed they were out on the open sea . |
| 18 | It seems clear that , with careful safeguards , we need some legal machinery , similar to the provision of Place of Safety Orders for children , by which an old person could be received into residential care for their own protection , at least for a limited period of time , which would afford a breathing space for all concerned and enable a proper assessment to be made of the situation — including the wishes of the old person once they were out of the violent or neglectful environment . |
| 19 | Before they were out of the English channel a severe storm washed a man overboard and left Mrs Dutton so ill she had to be taken ashore in a pilot boat when the storm dropped . |
| 20 | Down there in the dunes , they were out of the offshore breeze and out of the sun . |
| 21 | By 1971 , the tension was so great that Kapwepwe broke with Kaunda and formed the United People 's Party ( UPP ) which depended on a flimsy alliance between the Bemba and other tribal groups who at that time felt they were out in the political cold . |
| 22 | Once they were out in the fresh air , away from this green tomb , their blood would cool . |
| 23 | They were back on the broad but darkened thoroughfare of Holborn . |
| 24 | He would come exuberantly into the office after ops with his crew tagging along behind him , to tell us that our weather forecast had been spot on , it had all been a piece of cake , bombs went down — Wham ! — right on the target , no trouble at all , good show ! , and here they were back on the old tarmac , cheating death again , etc . |
| 25 | in the fifties the team won the marathon race five times … they were back on the winning trail in 88 and again in 90 … |
| 26 | Three grates and half a ton of jackdaw muck later , they were back to the colossal 17th-century hearth . |
| 27 | ‘ You have a lot of Asians and Caribbeans working in the foundry , but not so many in the other part , ’ Robyn observed , when they were back in the peaceful calm and comparative luxury of Wilcox 's office . |
| 28 | They were back in the Chinese room Sara once more tried to guess whether anything was missing . |
| 29 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 30 | They were down to the last roll of flowered wrapping paper– The shop had the look of a battlefield the morning after . |